(AP) — Republican Senate leader Mitch McConnell and Democratic challenger Amy McGrath have sparred over the federal response to the coronavirus crisis in a hard-hitting televised debate. McGrath, a retired Marine combat pilot, was aggressive from the outset Monday evening. She blamed the Kentucky senator for the lack of another round of federal relief for a pandemic-battered economy. McConnell blamed…
COLUMBIA, Ky. (AP) — Kentucky State Police say a man impersonated a law enforcement officer and attempted to forcibly remove a woman from her car after signaling for her to pull over. State police arrested 47-year-old George Barton on Sunday. It was more than a month after the incident near Columbia. The woman told investigators she was driving Sept. 3…
FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — A panel plans to review six sites that were nominated to be included on the National Register of Historic Places. A statement from the Kentucky Heritage Council says the Kentucky Historic Preservation Review Board will meet virtually Tuesday to hear presentations on each nomination. The board evaluates and recommends Kentucky submissions for the register to the…
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Joseph Kutz, a hand surgeon who helped perform the first hand transplant in the United States, has died at the age of 92. The Kleinert Kutz Hand Care Center said in a Facebook post that Kutz died Saturday. Kutz co-founded that center more than 50 years ago. Courier Journal reports the Louisville surgeon performed the milestone…
SCOTTSBURG, Ind. (AP) — A federal marshal says an inmate who escaped from a Kentucky jail last month by climbing through a hole in a jail window has eluded authorities who spotted him in a heavily wooded area of southern Indiana. Federal and Indiana law enforcement tracked 30-year-old Anthony Martinez on Thursday to Scott County, Indiana, based on information that…
PADUCAH, Ky. (AP) — Officials say a western Kentucky event dedicated to quilting has been canceled this year due to the coronavirus pandemic. American Quilter’s Society founder Meredith Schroeder said in a statement this week that all shows scheduled for 2021 Paducah QuiltWeek were canceled to due to health and safety concerns stemming from the pandemic. The 35th anniversary of…
FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — Kentucky’s secretary of state predicts about 700,000 Kentuckians will have requested absentee ballots before Friday’s deadline. Michael Adams says that rate is “right in the sweet spot” for election officials juggling mail-in and in-person voting for next month’s general election. Adams says as of Thursday, about 625,000 Kentuckians had requested absentee ballots. That’s about 17.5% of…
HYDEN, Ky. (AP) — Two years after an eastern Kentucky man was reported missing, police say his former wife and a former sheriff’s deputy were charged with murder. Family members reported Tyler North missing on June 25, 2018, and his burned truck was found few days later on the Leslie-Clay county line. Kentucky State Police said in a statement that…
GEORGETOWN, Ky. (AP) — Authorities have identified a man who was fatally shot when police said he approached a Kentucky deputy in an “aggressive manner” with a weapon. Scott County Coroner John Goble said Wednesday that 44-year-old Chester T. McDonald was shot multiple times Tuesday night. Scott County Sgt. Eddie Hart said a deputy was responding to a report of…
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Louisville police have released details of the investigation into the shooting death of Breonna Taylor. Mayor Greg Fischer said Wednesday that it was important to release the investigative files as quickly as possible, after making “necessary redactions.” He said much of the information in the files was included in records from the grand jury proceedings that…
